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There's only 5 of them and step one is locating the OEM paddle... quite easy to do so far.

Of course everything I touch never works, I had a joly hard time getting them on only to notice (compared to OEM) that the brackets on them had been placed on the wrong side. Tinkered somemore and finally have them installed.

Success! I say.

Major disappointement when I tried to downshift using the paddle. (Had upshifted with the stick prevously) So I downshifted using the stick without any issues. Intrigued, I finished installing the second paddle (upshift) to have a go with it. Half-success. It upshifted on the second pull but would not downshift using the downshift paddle. I downshifted with the stick and tried again. It took the second pull to complete the upshift, no downshift using the paddle but worked with the stick.

I re-installed the OEM to try it out on the upshift side. It worked for a few shifts and now doesn't work at all.

So I re-re-installed the new carbon fiber paddle and none of them work. They are just show pieces at this moment.

Would anyone have ANY idea what could my problem be?

Apart from me being a complete idiot when it comes to car related work...